"I
was inspired by my grandfather and my father, who have championed
international conservation for over fifty years. They helped to bring
about a revolution in attitudes towards our natural environment.
From
them, I learned that our relation to nature and wildlife goes to the
heart of our identity as human beings: from our sheer survival, to our
appreciation of beauty and our connection to all other living things."
The Duke of Cambridge's speech on the illegal wildlife trade at the World Bank, Washington D.C., USA
Our self-identity is not in the Creator, a person, but in 'nature': the 'heart' of our identity? I would have thought that the heart of our identity is our ability to reason, communicate, love, forgive, indeed, worship. But no, its our relation to wildlife. Remember that next time you see a lion tear an antelope to pieces or a pederast argue that his 'love' is part of nature.
